January 31, 2020From The Post-Soviet PostJapan is preparing for Chinese leader Xi Jinping’s spring 2020 state visit, which will serve as a litmus test of the historically fraught bilateral relationship.

January 30, 2020
| Mark F. Cancian, Adam SaxtonTrapped by a 355-ship force goal, a reduced budget, and a fixed counting methodology, the Navy can’t find a feasible solution to the difficult question of how its forces should be structured.

January 27, 2020
| Richard M. RossowOn February 1, Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will deliver the budget speech to Parliament. While the world looks for new insights into the government’s reform agenda, the government’s ability to enact reforms has noticeably slowed.

January 23, 2020
| Anthony H. CordesmanThe United States is currently seeking a “peace” process in Afghanistan reminiscent of the “Vietnamization” from the U.S.’ withdrawal in the Vietnam War, writes CSIS’s Burke Chair in Strategy.

January 22, 2020
| Claire ReadeThree divergent metrics could be used to measure success of the U.S.-China “Phase One” deal. Ironically, the deal may look the strongest using the negotiating metric employed by past U.S. administrations and strongly rejected by the Trump administration.

January 21, 2020
| William Alan ReinschLast week was a big one for trade – the U.S. and China signed their Phase One trade deal and the Senate passed the USCMA. The Scholl Chair recaps the week’s events and what they all mean.

Andrew Hunter, director of the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group and senior fellow of the International Security Program, testified before the House Committee on Armed Services on "DOD’s Role in Competing with China."

January 14, 2020
| Amy SearightIn the first of a two-part series, CSIS’s Amy Searight previews key issues to watch in Southeast Asia in 2020, including U.S.-ASEAN relations, climate change and the imperiled Mekong, and domestic politics.